On May 11, the Texas Attorney General filed suit against Netflix. The complaint's core accusation, in plain English: Netflix has been quietly building advertising profiles from what users watch, pause, rewind, and search — including children — while telling the public it does not. The lawsuit specifically cites Reed Hastings's 2020 statement that Netflix "doesn't collect anything" and points to the company's pivot to ad-tech as evidence the public was misled. Coverage: Time , CNBC , Variety , Malwarebytes . I'm not writing this to dunk on Netflix. I'm writing it because the lawsuit names the exact structural failure mode I tried to design my way out of when I built Background Camera RemoteStream . The architectural diagnosis hiding inside this lawsuit Cloud-by-default products collect by default. That isn't a policy choice that can be paper-over with a privacy page — it's a property of the architecture.…